Steve Eckert is President and CEO of AKH, Inc. Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare; which has offices in Jacksonville, Florida and Northfield, IL. With more than twenty-four years of experience in healthcare, he was proud to join AKH in 2013 and support their outstanding team. AKH is accredited with commendation, the highest honor awarded by the ACCME. AKH offers a variety of continuing medical education (CME) and continuing education (CE) methods and topics, designed for physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, nurses, dietitians and other health care professionals.As of January 2013, Steve became General Manager and co-owner of Professional Evaluation Interactive, a medical publishing company with three decades of experience in the development of AMA Category 1 CME Self-assessment programs (SAPs) in internal medicine, surgery, and oncology and Board Certifying examinations in internal medicine and lipidology. Professional Evaluation Interactive, LLC SAPs, such as the National Lipid Association Self-Assessment Program (NLA-SAP), the American Diabetes Association Self-Assessment Program (ADA-SAP), and the Complex Lipid Management Self-Assessment Programs (CLM-SAP) are designed to evaluate and teach the most current peer-reviewed published information on new developments in management, safety issues, and research using medical specialty board multiple choice question self-assessment techniques and computer-based scoring, analysis and reporting to physicians who are actively engaged in the management of patients with complex disorders. Please visit http://www.peisap.com/ for more information. Before these positions Steve's professional commitments included Executive Director for CME-University in Northfield, Illinois, a medical education and communications company he founded in 2007, leadership roles within fortune 500 and other international corporations such as Cardinal Health, Roche Pharmaceuticals, and others.